Principal Software Engineer

Job Overview:

We are looking for Tech Lead to join our Engineering team and lead all stages of the software product development life cycle. This will include analyzing system and user requirements, designing software flowcharts, writing clean Java code, troubleshooting bugs, and running tests to improve system functionality. If you are a person who has proficiency in Java technologies, good analytical skills, the ability to design software systems and anticipate issues, and frame remedial actions with excellent teamwork skills; We would like to speak to you

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, scale, and maintain backend services in Java
2. Collaborate with the engineering and product team to discuss project definitions and goals.
3. Work on individual priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
4. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and security of the backend systems.
5. Write simple, efficient, and maintainable code
6. Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
7. Ensuring best coding standards and practices to improve and maintain quality.

Requirements:

8. Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
9. Sound knowledge of Java technologies.
10. Solid grip on the programming basics like DS and algorithms, OOPS.
11. Experience with software design and application programming
12. Understanding & experience with software design patterns, restful APIs, and microservice architecture
13. Experience with software design and application programming
14. Strong debugging skills
15. Exposure to CI/CD and Test-Driven Development
16. Nice to have are Unix / Linux, database SQl / NoSQL, Java Spring, working knowledge on scripting (Perl, Shell Scripting).

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

About Team:

CaratLane's mission is to help customers express their emotions through jewellery. Consumer Experience Technology team is an enabler to deliver the exceptional Consumer Experience and WoW business features in large scale website, apps and backend systems.

What do we want:

* 5 to 8 years of experience in Java and Spring Boot working with large scale backend applications

* Expertise in PostgreSQL and any of caching databases

* Experience in developing RESTful/GraphQL APIs and microservices based applications

* Good problem solving and debugging skills.

* Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O

* Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality, Documentation, CI&CD

* Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)

* Experience is Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

• Java, J2EE
• Microservices
• Spring Boot
• JPA, REST API, JSON, JWT, OAuth, Spring Security, Swagger
• Oracle / MySQL / Postgres DB
• Angular / React / React Native
• JIRA, Bitbucket

Must-Have -

• Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
• Strong experience in REST API and web services
• Experience in Oracle / Mysql / Postgres DB
• Should be efficient with Java J2EE and related technologies
• Should have very good communication skills and analytical skills.
• Should have good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
• Good knowledge of current / emerging technologies and trends
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. High levels of initiative and creativity
• Good communication skills with all stakeholders, good team player with the ability to mentor juniors

Good to Have:

• Knowledge in Banking Domain
• Full-stack developers with knowledge and understanding of Javascript and associated technologies like React, Angular, HTML5, CSS will have an advantage.